Tuesday, February 18, 2020

Miss Cellania's Links

Signed, Sealed, and Undelivered. A treasure trove of 2600 letters from 300 years ago is making its way online for all to see. http://brienne.org/brienne-exhibit-cover (via Metafilter)

Things People Misunderstand About Famous Works Of Art.

How America made a mess of measuring poverty.

The 50-Year Journey to Solve the Murder of Harvard Student Jane Britton. (via Strange Company)

The 50 Greatest Romantic Comedies of All Time. Your mileage may vary.

Extinct Turtle Weighed 2,500 Pounds.

U.N. warns that runaway inequality is destabilizing the world’s democracies. (via Metafilter)

A home inspector found some weird stuff in a crawl space, called police, and then posted it to reddit. A few hours later, it made the papers.

How 1920s Catholic Students Fought the Ku Klux Klan. And why so many Catholic colleges changed their names. (via Damn Interesting)

A blast from the past (2007): Parade Time in New Orleans.

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